brakesman

"Ye mooney-face!" he roared at the brakesman who, his day's work done, was lolling on the grass.

The Return of Blue Pete Luke Allan

As Torrance watched, the end car slowly glided back toward the trestle and, to the sharply extended arms of an overalled brakesman, came to a standstill with a few inches of the truck overhanging the gossamer structure.

The Return of Blue Pete Luke Allan

Mitchell Robertson, who owned it, but who was then working on the train as a brakesman out of Calgary.

Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth

One brakesman, Alphonse by name, like a wise person, usually went about his own business on arrival at the Béthune Road

The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman

"Jump on, ye loon!" he yelled to the brakesman standing by the open switch.

The Return of Blue Pete Luke Allan

Of these men we have examples in Brindley, who was at first a labourer and afterwards a millwright; Telford was a stone-mason; Rennie a farmer's son apprenticed to a millwright; and George Stephenson was a brakesman at a colliery.

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

The brakesman entrusted with a rifle in that room paid no attention until a strong hand wrenched it from him.

The Return of Blue Pete Luke Allan

And some time after becoming naturalized, in one of his letters, he wrote that he was a brakesman on the Great Western R.R., (in Canada -- promoted from the U.G.R.R.,) the result of being under the protection of the

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still

In the afternoon it was even stronger, and I had to go back on the sledge and act as guide and brakesman.

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

As the latter were narrow and the available framework, by which to hold on and steady oneself, rather limited, the office of brakesman promised to be one with acrobatic possibilities.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920